The 4 th round meeting of the Vietnam-Laos Joint Committee for Border Markers Placement took place from Nov. 22-24 in the Lao capital city of Vientiane.

Vietnamese Deputy Foreign Minister Ho Xuan Son, who is also Head of the National Border Committee and Chairman of the Vietnam-Laos Joint Committee for Border Markers Planting, and Bounkeut Sangsomsack, Lao Deputy Foreign Minister, Head of the Lao Border Committee and Chairman of the Laos-Vietnam Joint Committee for Border Markers Placement attended the meeting.

At the meeting, the two sides reviewed the planting of border markers in recent years and discussed measures to complete the marker system along the Vietnam-Laos borderline by 2012.

The two sides’ representatives highly valued cooperative results between the two countries in 2011. This year, joint working teams have placed 489 markers and located the sites for 662 others.

On the occasion, the two sides signed a Framework Protocol on the shared border line and national bordermarkers between the two countries and a Regulation on describing the location, direction of the national border between Vietnam and Laos to serve the compilation of a Protocol on the Vietnam-Laos border line and national markers./.